Love Poem: Mountains of Paradise
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Written by: Sabahat Batool

Mountains of Paradise

All night, all night came  shimmering light 

And lit all winding unseen ways
In clusters came there from the skies
The angels , elves and beauteous fays

Oh Cacusus mount , thou clad in myth! 
Thou bath in shining mystery beams! 
Thou art a wondrous sight of glee
Thou art a glimpse of heaven's scene 

All night all night blew snowy gust,
And all night throbbed the sinking heart

Thy silent, freezing, chilly gloom ,
 Oh gracious mount all muses brought ! 

While pheasants fly upward to skies.
To bring the goddess moon in cart 

I see thy meadows in the sky
Who grazes in thy sweet grasslands? 
Who send there clouds from yonder skies? 
Who garnish thou with beauteous hands?

All snowy flakes with fairies wake
Kiss day and night thy silver sand

Thy peaks all night shine in moonbeams
And daytime glitter with  sun-rays
All fairy tales from house of mind
That recall childhood bygone days


He seest thy wild wild scenes of glee
The eyes of sky all time thee gaze
A saddest lass with hazy eyes
Who felt in heart the pangs of pain
Should I call her goddess of glee? 
Should I call her a beauty brain? 
Night snatches from her eyes dew drops
And  clouds snatch from her eyes all rain


All whitish beads in her wild dress
The fairies sew in dreamy nights
While water gushed and gushed in lakes
And sang songs cataracts from height


In midst of soothing nature's scenes
Thy beauteous scene she only sought


She will write for thee beauteous verse 
She will love to live in thy heart 
Oh harken harken beauteous mount 
From heavens for thee she hath brought
All that in broken heart she can 
With grief her gloomy heart is fraught
She bought all stars of yonder skies
In moonlit cart for thee hath brought